Talk:Gordonstoun

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Assessment: Hello all, and thank you for contributing to this school article. I'm part of the Wikipedia:WikiProject_Schools/Assessment team, and I'm reviewing this page. I'm currently giving it a grade of Start on the Wikipedia 1.0 Assessment Scale and an importance of Top on this importance scale. For information on improving this article, please visit the WikiProject Schools Project Page. My reasoning is as follows: Very impressive Alumni. Needs significant expansion with referenced material. Could also use some reorganization, pictures, and an infobox. Adam McCormick 06:11, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Idi Amin at Gordonstoun? Ridiculous - he never went there.

My fact checking fails me.

Fact checking assistance requested as I think there's an error.

Are you the individual that removed the comments about Prince Charles at Gordonstoun? If you are, perhaps you would do me the courtesy of explaining why? Thank you.

"In Gordonstoun Hahn introduced many German educational traditions." Such as? Could someone explain? I attended Gordonstoun for five years and was not aware of any. Also, the name of Gordonstoun School is, not surprisingly, "Gordonstoun School", so what is meant by the claim that Hahn named it after Salem?

I dont know what is meant by that, when i was there i never heard anything other than Gordonstoun School being used.-Eduardo Rivero

changed 'sometimes referred to as a public school' to 'often 17:59, 9 October 2006 (UTC)~', as this is the case.

Hi Ranolf,from GGS, also hi to that guy that was in cuthy that left us for this school. you traitor!

How is "Gordonstoun" pronounced? "Gordon's Town"? "Gordon-stone"? Or something else? Hugo S. Cunningham —Preceding comment was added at 21:04, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

It's pronounced Gordonstoon, ie, with the last syllable rhyming with spoon. Dahliarose 08:34, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

I disagree, I've only ever heard people pronounce it "Gordon-stun". Could just be an English pronunciation though. I agree the article needs and deserves to be improved. Anybody wanting to collaborate in some way? RudolfSchmidt 02:25, 26 April 2008 (GMT)

the "stoon" pronounciation is an alternative pronounciation used mainly by scottish people or ignorant english people who only know it as prince charles's school and assume that students are woken at 5am with enforced cold showers and then made to run several miles before breakfast and two hours of chapel. at the school itself, everyone uses the "stun" pronounciation. using the other identifies you either as a local scot who doesn't know/care much about it or just another ignorant englishman. 84.71.86.126 (talk) 22:49, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Reassess

• Gordonstoun. Following a review by the assessment team this article has been promoted to top importance because of the royal alumni (six members of the current British royal family including the future king), its international reputation and its unique ethos. It already has articles in four foreign-language Wikis. It is almost a B but a little more content and a few more references are required. References are in particular needed for the royal alumni claims (ideally the references should go in the articles on the people themselves) and for all claims to fame and international importance. Dahliarose 11:36, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Making the article better

I've started to create a more detailed article of gordonstoun under a different URL attached to my account with the intention of copying and pasting the completed whole when its finished. I'm not going to completely change whats in the existing article so that the original creator won't have done their bit in vain, but anything that hasn't been properly reference that I can't find a reference for will have to go. I've looked online but alot of info tends to be news reports about whats happened recently which means properly referencing things like the history and education without constantly getting it from the gordonstoun website will be hard. But I have taken out a couple of books, the only two my university library had, and hopefully I'll be able to get more info from them. I think I'll have it done in the next week or so but I've got exams soon so might have to delay it. If anybody was wanting to edit the article aswell then i'm happy to collaborate. RudolfSchmidt (talk) 00:01, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] George Oliver

the link to george oliver in the alumni section leads to a disamb page, with three george olivers, none of which were at school age when the school was open (one is american and predates it entirely). was this an intended redlink which has ended up leading to a disamb ? if so then can someone stub the relevant george oliver and direct link to him rather than the disamb.84.71.86.126 (talk) 22:53, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up, re: the link and my main user page! I have set about trying to improve this page and I will make sure that any errors or problems get sorted out but I'm sitting exams at the moment and I'm afraid everything else has been put on hold, but my last exam is this coming tuesday (hurray!) and i'll be back on the case as soon as. To be honest that whole section is badly cited and I presume that a lot of the unverifiable alumni will have to be removed anyway. Oh and by the way, hadn't noticed before but the edit you've made has been undone by Coolhandscot, please don't redo the edit as your comment 'This reputation is retained in modern times, when is is definitely undeserved.', as well as having a typo, is actually just a matter of opinion, and although it may be an opinion held by many it still doesn't mean it can be added to the article. It still needs to read like an encyclopedia and so that's why it was removed. If you want to learn more about this then try this tutorial page, it helps me when I get stuck. I don't mean to sound authoritative or angry, its just that the page has seen some random 'vandalism' in the past month and i'm trying to prevent some sort of edit war from occuring. RudolfSchmidt (talk) 19:38, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Messy talk page

On a different subject, i was thinking about deleting the early comments on the talk page, especially those that seem to be random people chatting and those that aren't signed. I don't mind keeping the ones that discuss the pronunciation of Gordonstoun much, but it would be good to have them under a common title. Any objections/thoughts? Considering the risk that it could just be me active on this page and therefore making this whole post a soliloquy, I'll wait a week or so and if there are no objections I'll go ahead and make the changes. RudolfSchmidt (talk) 19:38, 25 May 2008 (UTC)